17th April 25
Attendees:
Kevin
Hammond
TSC Chair (IOE)
Y
Adam
Dean
SC Vice-Chair
Y
Neil
Davies
TSC Member (PN Solutions)
Y
Matt
Davis
Intersect - Tech Ops Lead
Markus
Gufler
TSC Member (Cardano Foundation)
Y
Benjamin
Hart
TSC Member (MLabs)
Y
Jonathan
Kelly
TSC Member
Y
Ricky
Rand IOHK
IOE General Manager - Observer
Duncan
Soutar
TSC Secretary
Christian
Taylor
Intersect - Opensource Head
Duncan
Coutts
Welltyped - Observer
Meeting Minutes:
1. Resignation of Nicholas Clarke
Nick resigned from the TSC as of 15/04/25 Proposed vote of thanks to Nick for his time and service over 6 Months - endorsed by all
Public Announcement on Nick’s Resignation and thanks from TSC - Duncan to draft
2. Reaction to Budget Proposal
Closed session to draft responses to queries on submitted on proposal Action: Need to determine and highlight overlaps with other submitted proposals KH: Expects that TSC budget can align with IOE budget but within an alternative framework for delivery ND: Budget proposal from TSC is an intention to create a framework that allows delivery momentum to be maintained KH: TSC would like express their concerns at the state of communication within Intersect with regards to meeting sharing following the Board meeting with Intersect Members on 16/04/25 Meeting with Ger currently being rescheduled. Query from Yuta: Would IOE be willing engage with TSC’s budget should it be successful? RR: No information has been shared with him that IOE would pull out if TSC budget were successful KH: Several proposals submitted would require further information to be able to form a contract AD: to share his reflections on the Budget Process KH: Suggestion for follow-on session on TSC proposal with DReps. Request 15 minutes to give an outline on Thursday’s session
[Action]: Coordinate to support for Friday 3am call on TSC budget - Duncan [Action]: Kevin to reshare Poll to reschedule meeting with Ger. All committee members to respond.
3. Reviewing Core Budget Proposals
KH: Concern at the level of time required to assess proposals properly. More time than has been provided. Ideally the ability to engage with subject matter experts would be available. ND: Concern that proposals submitted have not identified risks Proposal: TSC may initially draft a series of queries against each proposal to help guide DReps to scrutinise proposals with suppliers. JK: Highlighting the balance between bureaucracy and need to prevent unnecessary chaotic submissions
[Action] Identify proposals that are considered core [Action] Determine framework by which proposals will be judged [Action] Review proposals that have been submitted. [Action]: KH to provide a framework for analysing bids to the TSC
4. IOG Maintenance Contract
ND: Drawn concern that significant changes have been made to the IOE maintenance contract without TSC consultation. ND: Current version does not allow value for money to be demonstrated to the community ND: Query as to whether TSC should continue to let its name to the maintenance contract JK: Changes between original and revised contract - - Doubled in length and cost - Removed named people from contract - Removed fiscal reporting/auditing requirements DS: Concern that contract in current 12-month form will be in conflict with both IOE & TSC budget submissions KH: Query as to where funding comes from for back payment of maintenance contract. Does this back payment need to be made as a budget submission? RR: Does the TSC agree that IOE has been delivering as per the maintenance contract (which currently remains unsigned) ND: Agreed that from the end of Jan to present (apart from last 2 weeks which he hasn’t reviewed) that this has operated extremely well and was very pleased with how it was operating. RR: Insists that changes were made by Intersect rather than IOE. RR: Is happy for list of names to be added back into contract KH: Establish whether previous version of contract could be reimplemented RR: Happy with 6 or 12 month time frame. However 2 (or 4) week termination period would not to be acceptable. 3 months would be agreeable. RR: Issue with auditing function. ND: Want to find a mechanism to help provide evidence of value for money to the community JK: A standardised Framework for Fiscal Reporting needs to be established in order to ensure that there is a transparent, publicly accessible verification of proper allocation of Treasury/Community Funds against agreed upon Contracted works.
[Action] : Series of meetings to be held. [Action]: To raise this issue with the Intersect Board
5. Project Submission #004: Cardano Serialization Library
This is pilot for project incubation: AD: This library underpins every single DApp so strongly endorses this proposal AD: Only contention is that this is not a core repository owned by Intersect ND: Query over alignment and regression testing BH: Endorse that this is heavily relied on by many developers in the community JK: Submission was made via OSC budget proposal rather than an individual submission DC: Highlights difficultly of long term maintenance and thinks brining it under Intersect budget could help address this problem - endore the idea CT: Will sit under OSC but want the TSC to validate as a “balancing factor”
[Action] Decision needed: Whether this should be taken under Intersect for Tooling [Action] TSC members to review and make decision
6. Update from Parameter Committee
Proposal to increase Plutus mem unit limits Proposal to change Plutus v2 cost model KH: Push this to next week’s meeting
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